Bare (music group)

Rob Miller and Nan Warshaw presaged "alternative country" and have now outlived it. The duo, who co-founded Bloodshot Records with Eric Babcock 20 years ago, took it one album at a time when they started out, and more than 200 albums later, they still do. "It would be presumptuous to call it a business plan," Warshaw says of the label that started with a list of bands scrawled on a cocktail napkin. "If we had set it all up in a conference room instead of a bar like we did, Miller adds, "it probably would've been a lot less successful." The idea was to document "the underground of the underground," a scene in the shadow of nationally...

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